It can be easy for New Orleans residents to forget the rest of the world exists. We tend to live in our own little bubble and ignore the rhythms of the rest of civilization.
That is why, with the start of the NBA season less than two weeks away, we want to bring you up to speed on the rest of the teams in the Western Conference and how the New Orleans Pelicans measure up.
Rather than going team-by-team, we broke down the West into three groups: teams at the top/on the rise, teams who did not improve (at least in the short term), and unknowns.